Sharing breastfeeding resources that I found on the net.
I have a lot of colleagues despite working as a full time working doctors with the pressure of Masters exam and patients/bosses high expectations at work – still managed to breastfeed their babies. They are my idols and I really wish I could emulate them.
I do not expect breastfeeding would come easily. My sis have been generous lending me her Spectra 3 and her Phillips Avent manual breast pump. She is my personal lactation counsellor And I try to read up on the subject as she advised.
My staff nurses asking me everyday … when am I taking leave.. I said when I pop laaa…. Dah nampak sarat sangat ok. Even patients go out of their way to wish me best of luck with my delivery. One girl even commented, ” Doctor punya bump comel sangat… bulat…” My response err thanks?
Lately having the infamous veejayjay pain everyday – when I walk felt like this constant pressure on the suprapubic area. So, I walk kind of funny now – like a duck waddling… with my back n hip n butt ache…felt like my uterus going to drop (although I know it wouldn’t).
Me at 36 weeks with other mommy bloggers
I look fat….
After daily ward rounds – especially grand ward round – I’ll get that persistent ‘period pain like’ sensation on the lower abdomen and the whole tummy become hard. Gave me quite a scare everytime – I even went to the Antenaltal Clinic and had a CTG done once – but no contractions on CTG. It was not regular and it disappears after I sit or lie down so I know it was not time yet. That’s why I love weekends where I can just lie in bed and not worry of anything.
Still – I love the fact that Baby AK going to come out anytime… hubby is hopeful that baby will make appearance right after Chinese New Year. Lucky baby dragon perhaps? I don’t really believe in feng shui stuff but amused nevertheless.
Do you know what I am going to miss most when baby come out? That feeling of baby kicking and moving from inside… and I love having hubby’s hand on my tummy whenever baby move. Felt loved and blissful…
Baby has this tendency to move about during ward rounds and teachings – hope that is a good sign. Smart baby I have here…
2. What was your favorite moment of the year?
Passing my exam and discoverring I am preggers
3. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
Err getting pregnant… duh
4. What was your least favorite moment(s) of the year?
It had been a fairly good year.. with the new house… new baby… can’t think of anything… probably failing my clinicals but now that I passed it — it is a distant memory for now
5. What are your plans for 2011?
Just waiting for my baby to pop out now…
6. What countries did you visit?
Singapore –> yearly visit — not travelling that much as we were broke with baby and the house and all..
7. What date in 2011 will remain etched in your memory?
1st January – getting the house keys…
6th June – when I saw this for the first time
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Passing my Mmed Part 1 clinical and theory..
9. What was your biggest failure?
Mmm… failing clinicals after passing theory sucks…
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury?
Morning sickness or in my case it was nightly sickness – then the dreaded PUPPP
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My Asus EePC
12. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Family relatives who dumped their elderly parents in hospital may you rot in hell.. and ppl who despite knowing that UMMC is really freaking expensive still insist to come here but then kick up a huge fuss when we ask to pay
13. Where did most of your money go?
THE HOUSE!!!! OMg seriously macam paip air duit keluar… and my dear baby…. Big bad wolf sale!!!
14. What did you get really really really excited about?
Having our first baby… being a mommy…
15. Who do you appreciated the most this year?
My hubby and family for being there when I was down after failing my clinicals… and friends who put up with me while I cope with exams and pregnancy…
16. Compared to this time last year are you:
a) Fatter or thinner? Fatter.. tsk tsk
b) Happier or sadder? Happier.
c) Richer or poorer? Poorer … (unless they revise the freaking SBPA thing)
17. What do you wish you’d done more of?
More studying… save money
18. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Shopping…
19. How did u spent your Christmas?
Shopping baby stuff at 1utama, muching popcorn… weee Garret!!! and bubble tea… 1utama now have loads of my favourite things to eat & drink
20. What is your wish for 2012?
A safe, gentle birth for my dear baby… and a smooth labor for me…
21. Did you fall in love in 2011?
I am in love more and more with my dear abah baby
22. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My BFF/colleague Adilla gave birth to Baby Damia… Anil, Fauzana… many of my friends got pregnant this year… a good 5 medical MOs in my dept were pregnant this year… even my medical dept clerk is pregnant… Dragon & Bunny babies ahoy!!!
23. Did anyone close to you die?
None thank God
24. What was your biggest regret this year?
Had to terminate my gym membership as it became too inconvenient to go to the old gym now that we have moved to Shah Alam. Hoping they will open a closer nicer gym on this side of town
25. What was your favourite TV show?
Vampire diaries, Game of Thrones, New Girl…. the new sitcoms Broke Girls were freaking funny..
26. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nope
27. What was/were the best books you read?
Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin
28. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Adele!!!
29. What did you want and get?
My baby…. something I always wanted but did not dare to wish or ask, never dreamt of getting…
30. What did you want and not get?
Bought Gold Coast tix but since I am pregnant – can’t use it at the end…
31. What was your favourite film this year?
Harry Potter – final movie…
32. What did you do on your birthday?
When to PD Avillion with hubs… Babymoon,,,
33. What one thing would have made your year more satisfying?
Nothing much that I can think of now…
34. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Maxi… long dress… pregnant apa lagi nak pakai…
35. What kept you sane?
My hubby.. always
36. Which celebrity did you fancy the most?
Aaron Aziz hehehehe…
37. Which political issue stirred you the most?
SBPA ooo SBPA… Bersih…
38. Who did you want to meet but didn’t?
Some of my Singapore aunties & cousins whom I miss so much but did not manage to see during my cousin’s wedding
39. Where did you want to go but did not manage to?
Gold Coast!!! *hint to hubby*
40. Favourite songz of the year
Love You Like A Love Song - Selena Gomez & The Scene
Rolling In The Deep – Adele
Lonely & Ugly – 2NE1
41. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned this year?
Sometimes all it takes were some magical touch of rezeki anak to make your life a whole lot better
42. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year…
Can’t think of any song for now… how about we end with a song dedication
To my hubby – my pillar of strenght and now in our 3rd year of marriage – I felt blessed…
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave
How can I love when I’m afraid to fall
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer I have died everyday waiting for you
Darling don’t be afraid I have loved you
For a thousand years
I’ll love you for a thousand more
- Christina Perri – A thousand year
errr… I am not a big fan of Twilight but I really do love this song
Needed a fuss free hairstyle – after delivery with post partum hair loss, coping with baby 24-7 and confinement pantang larang – don’t think could maintain a long hairstyle.
also today my baby niece 1st day at school Yay Yaya dah besar!!! I am a proud auntie!!
Happy new year everyone… going back to Seremban today – nenek baby nak buat kenduri doa selamat esok.
I think mama hardly blog about your abah.Your abah very publicity shy. Mama do not think he like mama talk about him much. Lucky, blog mama not that glamorous – Nuffnang pun tak ada teringin nak jemput mama to Napbas ke apa…so don’t think it would do any harm. In other words – mama don’t think ada orang pun baca blog mama ni… hehehehe…
Abah baby is very sweet to mama ever since mama pregnant. Tolong urut kaki mama bila kaki cramp tgh malam. Hantar mama pergi balik kerja hospital.Temankan mama pergi antenatal classes. But baby – yang paling sweet time tengok dia angkut barang baby yang mama borong kat littlewhiz Setia Alam last weekend lepas tu balik terus pasang.
you bend over to tie your shoes and realize you can’t. If you spread your legs really far apart, you can sort of bend over and let your belly hang between them, but it’s not pretty.
you go to slip your rings off your fingers to knead some cookie dough, and realize “slipping” ain’t happening. Try “tugging them off over your swollen sausage knuckles” instead.
you spend twenty minutes slowly rolling around, readjusting pillows, and audibly grunting in an attempt to get comfortable in bed and ease the pain in your hips… only to realize that you have to pee. Again.
your belly button looks like a 3rd nipple
when you can barely hug your husband while standing up because your tummy is too big and arms too small
you complain about how much the baby is kicking your bladder or ribs or how uncomfortable it is when s/he stretches out in all directions at once, simultaneously taking your breath away and making you double over in discomfort. Then you feel guilty for wishing your healthy, active baby moved less and burst into tears for being such a terrible, ungrateful person.
the out-of-control sex drive you had during your second-trimester-glow has suddenly been replaced by the don’t-even-think-about-it defensive maneuver. This mostly involves the evil eye and straight-up shoving.
you realize that you are just 7 weeks shy of being officially “full-term” and that sometime in the next 7 to 12 weeks you are going to have a newborn to care for. *gasp* am I ready???
everyone you know start telling you to pack up the hospital bag but you rather procrastinate as having the bag ready just make the fact that you are so near to delivery too real
you’ll be leaving a job you love to stay at home soon. (yay!!! finally) And everything is changing. Depending on the moment, this either makes you elated (Pregnancy will be over! So many new great things will happen!) or absolutely f-ing terrified. And sad. And you burst into tears.
Some people felt that antenatal classes is overrated and does not help at all. But I do feel it helps to prepare you (and hubby) mentally for birth. Yes – I am a health professional that knows how to conduct labour & baby delivery but hubby wasn’t. I take the classes as an opportunity for both of us to learn together (a good bonding session as new parents too). Besides, I feel there is no harm in re-learning and it has been years since the last time I went through delivery of a baby (as the doctor not the patient ok…)
Went to Pantai’s antenatal class *which is really freaking expensive. Wanted to go to UMMC’s class but it fell on a weekend which I had to work and I reasoned since I am probably delivering in Pantai – I felt it is best to go to Pantai’s antenatal class anyway. Still – if the next UMMC class day I am free and have not delivered – I probably go anyway. For knowledge sake.
This is the schedule for December which listed the classes that was offered for the whole course. The instructors especially Ms Elizabeth were really nice and helpful. My favourite class were actually hers – care of newborn and the delivery exercises.
My favourite part in care of the newborn was the part where she points out how baby cry and what does it mean. You can see it in this Oprah Winfrey’s show youtube.
BTW – do you know it is not good to do rocking movement – yes it calms the baby but done vigorously – you are actually giving the baby cerebral concussion. To calm babies – it is better to pat them rather than rocking/swinging them – but I find it hard to take in *cause it doesn’t work with my nieces/nephew.
The dental talk was interesting in the sense that the dentist points out the dos and don’t in taking care of baby’s oral care. No pacifiers please. Use wipes to clean baby’s mouth – but her advice kinda clash with the lactation counsellor instruction that nothing except breast should go into baby’s mouth.
When I was an HO – I learned breathing for delivery is chin down, look down and take long breaths out – pushing down like you are having the worst constipation ever. The technique they taught us is somewhat similar but more like the way they teach in yoga – me & hubby really had fun practising it, were giggling through it actually. We had to do some squatting movements to open up the pelvic outlet. Ms Elizabeth also taught us that if baby is in breech position – you can try to be on your on your knees & elbows, lift your buttock higher than heart level and keep in this position to facilitate baby to turn his/her head down.
Good that baby did not join in with the exercises (or rather – acrobatics). I do hope of all things – hubby at least remember the massage technique – I probably will desperately need it.
At the last session they gave us a goodie bag – no diaper samples though LOL.
Stuff in the goodie bag
If I had the opportunity to go to UMMC antenatal class – I’ll review that too ok.
I am still doing on calls – the last one whould be this sunday then no more on calls until I finish confinement .
I still can insert 2 internal jugular catheters, do 1 lumbar puncture and peritoneal tapping all in one day – so HOs if this heavily pregnant MO can do all these – you young, healthy, obviously not pregnant people do not have any valid excuse not to do your work.
I can sit for hours in clinic *but with frequent toilet breaks and have to have some snacks in my bag in case I get too hungry.
I can walk for lunch all the way to Pak Abu and before that even to Rumahku (if you work in UMMC – you would realise it is actually really far).
But – I find it hard to drive – the drive to work were not so bad but the drive back through the infamous NKVE Damansara- Subang crawl is too tiring - so hubby is driving *except this Thursday when he’s out station so I have to drive anyway that day.
I do not look forward to go out on weekends anymore despite how badly I wanted to go watch a movie *guess movie apa yang I wanted to watch
My feet is perpetually swollen and it is really hard to reach down and cut my toenails *hubby offered to help but I find it embarrassing to have him cut my toenails.
My parents telling me to take it easy – I wished I could.
It’s ok- baby and I and hubby can make it through this – just another 8 weeks… earlier or later…
And I try to read up on the subject as she advised.
I am a proud auntie!!
